The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-10-21

What would Bently say? his best patients
MORALLY offended! | was too unhappy to
make any effort to attract attention. but
lay huddled up among the old Lancets and
Daily IsIegraphs, when the bell rang
again, and this time some one went into
the consulting room, saying: every well,
l will wait"
could hear this person fidgeting about,
taking the books from the shelves, and
opening and shutting the drawers in the
escritoire.
I vas just thinking how inquisitive it
was, and how annoyed Bently would be at
such behavior, when the newcomer walk
ed into the surgery. There was a wide
see that the prying individual was young
Jerry Winterbottom. Was I ever to be
delivered from that family?
1 thought he looked more thar usually
nustered and odd, and he did not sit still,
but pulled the bottles about just as he had
done the books, and talked to himself in
a rambling, incoherent way; then he be-
gan to dance softly up and down, first on
one leg and then on the other, and to make
the most horrible grimaces.
There is something to me very fascinat-
ing in people who make faces, and | was
watching him intently, and even initiating
him a little, when suddenly he caught
sight of an instrument case on the table;
his eyes lighted up, he pounced on it,
opened it, and drew out a knife, sharp and
awful looking.
He ran his finger lightly up and down
the edge, laughing all the time. Then he
went up to the looking-glass and unbut-
toned his collar-he was going to cut his
throat.
/ was so scared hat | could not articu-
late; but | flung myself against the door
and yelled a wild, unearthly yell.
This, coming as it apparently did from
nowhere at all, frightened him so that he
dropped his knife and sprang back into a
corner, where he crouched, rolling his
eyes, and trembling with terror.
l kept on shrieking as loudly as ever |
could, but | don't believe the servants
would ever nave heard me, and | should
have gone as mad as young Jerry himself,
if Timothy Donovan, an Irish laborer. had
not happened to come in for his mothers
medicine.
He thought Mr.. Winterbottom had got
an attack of ''the horrors a malady
u-;TI, ,,I;al, Io mas n ;I;,r anI On urJaya
treatment he had ideas of his own. He
called in Edward, the page and between
them they tied the poor fellows arms and
legs securely. They had just finished
when Bently appeared, in time to hear my
last feeble scream before | tainted.
The Winterbottoms were awfully kind;
they declared | had saved their sons life,
and chat Bently saved it again when he
pulled him through his brain fever.
When Jerry was convalescent he went
abroad with my husband for a six months
tour. Of course l hated parting from
Bently, but | knew it was a splendid thing
for him. Afterward he sold the Bradham
practice and Mr.. Winterbottom helped him
into one in London where he is getting on
splendidly.
Young Winterbottom is a different fell
low now; his father and mother lethim do
just as he likes, and the consequence is
that he is going to turn out a very good
artist. His father hangs the walls of Bar
rowclough with his productions, aud it is
very funny to hear him when he d~iscourses
on them to his friends:
"a queer fancy this of my boys, for
dabbling and daubing; but they tell me
he's clever att; and there's one thing, he
need never see the inside Of the mills if he
don't want. I've plenty for ~both-plenty
for both"
Jerry has a studio near us in kensing-
ton, and comes often to see US. The most
interesting thing of all is, that he has fall
en- in love with Lizzie Dacres, and they
are to be married in the spring. The old
people are delighted.-Agnes P00er, IN the
Lpdepend ent.